While Blind Wang was talking, Luo Zhixue also saw something strange about the Ming army on the right defensive line.
After the defeat of the Xian Yong in front, these Ming soldiers did not retreat temporarily but launched an attack directly without any pause.
This means that the Ming army on the opposite side is determined to defend the right side even if they rush forward with soldiers.
The Ming army began to fight hard!
It's just that Luo Zhixue didn't understand the Ming army on the opposite side. If he were the commander of the Ming army on the opposite side, he wouldn't even fight the second general attack, let alone let the precious soldiers launch a charge.
If it were Luo Zhixue who came by himself, he would send people out to continue recruiting reinforcements, whether they are combat soldiers or county braves used as cannon fodder. In short, the more the merrier.
Then try to get a few artillery pieces over. Although this is a mountainous area and it is difficult to bring in heavy artillery weighing over a thousand kilograms, some artillery pieces weighing several hundred kilograms can still be brought in with a little effort.
As for the immobility of the horse and so on, this is purely unnecessary worry.
As long as people can walk, a large number of manpower can be directly dispatched to carry the artillery directly.
A big man like Wang Jida could ride a sedan into the mountains, and he wouldn't be able to resist a cannon weighing several hundred kilograms.
It's just that they have no mobility at all. However, they don't need much mobility to attack Songshan. They can wait patiently for ten days and a half for the artillery to arrive.
While waiting for reinforcements and artillery, you can also continue to send out elite interception teams from the Baoxiang Camp to fight, or even plan to ambush the interception team from the Baoxiang Camp.
As long as there are a few successful ambushes, Baoxiang camp will lose a lot of elites and it will be impossible to maintain the continuous blockade of the mountains on the left and right sides.
At that time, we can completely occupy a trail into the mountain and send partial divisions to go directly behind the Songshan defense line.
Not to mention front and rear flanking attacks, it is enough to simply cut off the connection between the Songshan front line and the Songshan Village in the rear.
With a multi-pronged approach, it is entirely possible for the Ming army to block the Songshan rebel army's retreat. Not to mention cutting off the Songshan rebel army's logistics supply line, it can also block the rebel army's retreat.
Wait until reinforcements and artillery arrive before making a frontal breakthrough.
The only troublesome thing about the whole process is that it takes longer and requires more resources.
However, this is just Luo Zhixue's idea to pretend that he is the commander of the Ming army.
However, the commander of the Ming army on the opposite side didn't seem to think so. After the failure of the first general attack, he couldn't wait to launch the second round of general attack after only three days of detour and harassment operations.
And they still launched a general offensive without receiving reinforcements.
Is it the commander on the opposite side, Tai Cai?
Or does he have great confidence in the soldiers under his command?
Luo Zhixue didn't know at all that Huang Guangmao had never thought of launching a second general attack so quickly, but Wang Jida kept forcing him.
In desperation, he could only launch a second general attack.
He even spent a lot of money in order to avoid the situation where he suffered huge casualties and failed after launching a general attack.
They were counting on taking Songshan even if they had to pay relatively heavy casualties, so as to avoid the situation of only losses but no gains.
To put it bluntly, Huang Guangmao just wanted to grit his teeth and take Songshan after suffering a wave of casualties. Wang Jida continued to force him to send troops to die, which turned into a fueling tactic.
Although Luo Zhixue was unaware of the internal conflicts of the Ming army, this did not prevent him from commanding his troops to fight and causing a large number of casualties to the attacking Ming army.
Even though the defensive force on the right side of the defense line was not large at the beginning, there were only a hundred ordinary thieves belonging to the right army. Among them, the 20th and 30th were even new recruits who had been recruited not long ago, and the remaining 50 or 60 people had only been trained for a few days. Months of soldiers.
It is naturally impossible for the right army alone to block the attack of the main force of the Ming army.
However, Luo Zhixue quickly sent reinforcements to the right defense line, including three teams from the baggage camp and one team from the cavalry sentry.
Among them, the fourth team of the baggage camp is special. The soldiers in this team are all veteran prisoners of war who surrendered, which are the original subordinates of the Sky-Tampering Tiger.
These old thieves have actually experienced hundreds of battles. Their equipment may be a little inferior, but their combat skills are not bad at all. Many of them can also bend bows and shoot arrows.
With the support of reinforcements, the density of arrows on the right defense line increased significantly. After more than a hundred soldiers of the Ming army launched a charge, they finally climbed to the fence and other obstacles 20 to 30 meters outside the wooden wall. , no fewer than twenty people were killed or injured.
At first glance, it seemed that there were only about twenty casualties, which didn’t seem to be many.
But the problem is that this Ming army only has a hundred soldiers in total, and twenty people were killed and injured during the charge. This casualty rate has reached 20%.
If it were those county warriors, they would have fled long ago. That is to say, these are all soldiers, and Huang Guangmao also gave them a death order before the battle. They must hit the top of the mountain on the right, and they are not allowed to retreat without orders.
In addition, although their losses were considerable, there were also archers and musketeers among them who continued to fight back, causing some casualties to the Baoxiang soldiers on the top of the mountain.
That’s why I gritted my teeth and held on!
However, when the Baoxiang camp pulled out a captured 100-jin artillery piece and fired a round of cannons at the Ming army twenty or thirty meters away, they were immediately covered by dense arrows and ten more were killed and wounded. The rest of them finally couldn't hold on any longer.
At this time, their casualty rate has reached more than 30%. Even though they are all recruits from the battalion sentry system, the serious soldiers among the officers and soldiers cannot hold on.
I don't know who ran first, but it didn't take long for the Ming army to run away down the mountain.
When Huang Guangmao at the foot of the mountain saw this scene, he sighed and closed his eyes.
This battle cannot be fought!
He sent hundreds of soldiers to launch a strong attack, but he was still repelled by the opponent. How could he fight?
Wang Jida's expression on the side was even uglier.
"Whoever asked them to retreat is a bunch of losers. Why did they retreat when they were almost killed?" Wang Jida yelled at him on the spot.
In his field of vision, the officers and soldiers attacking on the right were already attacking, and they were only seven or eight feet away from the wooden wall on the top of the rebel army's mountain.
It's only such a small distance, and I can rush forward just by running two steps.
But these damn losers retreated.
Huang Guangmao ignored Wang Jida's words. Although this was not his own retreat order, he did not blame the soldiers in front.
This time the attack hit this point, Lien Zhan and more than 30 people were killed or wounded. They had tried their best.
If we continue to resist forcefully, there will be no second possibility except the annihilation of the entire army.
Huang Guangmao doesn't blame them.
After sighing, Huang Guangmao ordered the Chinese troops on the left and front to also start to retreat. Since the attack on the right had failed, the feint attack on the left and front was unnecessary.
After Huang Guangmao's retreat order was issued, the Ming troops in the front retreated toward the rear in dejection.
Especially the soldiers of the Ming army who retreated from the mountain on the right were even more dejected, and many of them even looked frightened.
When they were running down the mountain, they were hit by several rounds of bows and arrows, killing and wounding seven or eight people.
As of now, there are only more than fifty soldiers left in their original hundred-strong army, which can fill up one sentry.
His morale plummeted to such a low level that he even walked with his head down.
The scene of the Ming army retreating one after another was also seen by Luo Zhixue and others.
Luo Zhixue looked at the Ming army retreating from the mountains on the left and right sides one after another. He also looked at the enemy's central army retreating backwards in the valley in front, and even lost their formation.
After running through his mind for a few seconds, he said: "The cavalry sent out to pursue the enemy's defeated troops!"
Now the enemy is in a state of retreat, and their morale is extremely low. The Ming army in the center is scattered, and most of them are county warriors who have no fighting ability.
This is an opportunity that has never been seen in the past few days, an opportunity for our own cavalry to attack.
Wang Xiazi, who was behind Luo Zhixue, immediately said: "I accept your orders!"
Then he got on his horse and ran all the way to the cavalry post waiting in the open space below the valley.
Today's cavalry sentry still has two teams of sixty cavalry, and the other team, the third team, is directly transferred to the right side to be used as archers.
When Luo Zhixue gave the order, several messengers beside him also issued the order to attack by flag language to the third team of cavalry sentry on the top of the mountain on the right.
Immediately, the cavalrymen of the third team ran quickly towards the valley clearing, where there were friendly troops from the two teams and their horses.
Because time was tight, Wang Xiazi rode his horse to reach the two teams of cavalry at the cavalry post. He glanced at the third team of cavalry on the right. These cavalry were also halfway on the road and would probably arrive in a few minutes.
Their mobility behind the defense line was relatively convenient, because the valley and the defense lines on the hills on both sides were connected. In addition to the wooden walls, there were naturally flat roads for passage behind the wooden walls.
In addition, the Songshan Defense Line is actually not very wide as a whole, only a few hundred meters in total.
The cavalry of the third team cannot run over directly, so it is more convenient for quick transfer.
Blind Wang didn't wait long, and soon the third team of cavalry arrived. He arranged the third team of cavalry who ran all the way, and many people were still panting, behind them.
As for the first team, it is naturally the first team.
After everyone got on their horses and got ready, Blind Wang waved to Wang Dazhuang who was stationed on the wooden wall of the canyon in front.
Then Wang Dazhuang ordered his soldiers to open the heavy wooden door.
Just a few seconds later, Wang Xiazi took the lead and rushed out with more than ninety cavalry!
On the opposite side, Huang Guangmao, who was originally in a bad mood because of the failure of the second attack, was still thinking about how to dissuade Wang Jida and let him continue the attack. He was also thinking about how to appease Qi Shi who had fallen to the bottom due to the failure of the attack and heavy losses. .
Suddenly, I heard an unusual rumbling sound coming from the other side of the valley!
Hearing the sound, he frowned and then looked towards the valley.
In his sight, a group of cavalry rushed out from the valley, and in front of these cavalry was the chaotic Ming army that had no formation at all and was dominated by county warriors.
For a moment, his eyes were dull, and there were only three words left in his mind: It's over...
